Psalm 84:1 “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!”
To the Children of God, our Lord’s “tabernacles” are “amiable”; that is, lovely beyond comparison and greatly loved. While this Psalm first applied to the Old Testament “tabernacles” and its various parts, it also prophetically points to the New Testament House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, the Bride of Christ! Of all the magnificent things my eyes have looked upon in this life, there is nothing so lovely as the assembled House of God as they greet and embrace one another, sing the sweet old Hymns, kneel in prayer together, and rejoice together under the sound of the preached Gospel. These things are unmatched in their beauty, for they are the work of the “LORD of hosts” and are about Him and for His glory. The regenerated “soul” “longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD” and our “heart and” our “flesh crieth out for the living God” (Psalm 84:2). Putting it plainly, when the Lord makes His presence known, I would rather be in the House of my God, with His lovely Children, than to be anywhere else in this present world! Oh, let the cry go out across the Land, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths” (Micah 4:2)! Let us not forsake “the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25)!